This article explores the impact of payment models (fee for service vs salary based) on practice patterns, including wait times and care for patients with chronic diseases. Objectives: Many health ...

A survey of all Arizona physicians found that accountable care organization, clinically integrated network, or integrated delivery network participation was associated with higher use of health ...

Practices that have incorporated concierge or direct-pay models find measurable benefits, including maintaining their independence. Desiring better work-life balance, lower administrative burden, and ...

As the workload for medical oncologists increases and oncology care becomes more complex, advanced practice professionals (APPs), primarily nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA), are ...

Physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs) frequently work as collaborative teams in oncology, and the models of practice vary. Optimizing the models for quality of care, ...

The practice doctorate in nursing initiative has advanced surprisingly rapidly over the last several years, prompting nursing educators, prospective students, and clinicians to question and indeed to ...

Client segmentation can involve multiple permutations, but there’s merit in keeping it simple and holistic at the outset. The objective is to be able to identify at a high level the pockets within a ...

Stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) are three-dimensional biological structures that mimic aspects of early human embryo development. They can be created in the lab from stem cells, and can provide ...

In the Spring of 2012, synthetic biology researchers Denny Luan and Cindy Wu launched an experimental company, which tested a new approach for funding science. Crowdfunding was the name of the game, ...